How to Cheat at Homework or Online Classes
My view of homework help (cheating):
As a tutor, I try to ask students to learn the material and ask me questions that they are having trouble with. However!... I understand that most students taking college algebra, physics, or chemistry will seldom use the information in those courses and I would rather see someone get on with their life and get a job than get held back. Does a guidance counselor ever use the formula for an ellipse or convert grams to moles or calculate the trajectory of an arrow shot from a bow at an angle of 33.2 degrees above the horizon with an initial speed of 42.8 m/s? NO! So while some people might look down on homework help or homework "cheating", I don't see it as a huge sin and those who do can jump in a lake (with piranhas!).
I warn students that they need to know the material to pass the class exams, so don't view this as a complete "get out of jail free card". Also turning in A+ homework and getting F's on an exam is a give-away that you are cheating. Be careful!!!
I offer one of the least expensive homework help services that I know of. It averages out to about $15 per hour.
Just email homework questions to: admin@tutor-homework.com.
Various Methods of "Homework Cheating":
Doing an Internet Search
If you are at this page, I'm sure you're aware of the power of doing a Google or Yahoo search. And you probably also know that if you're searching for the answer to a specific question, just type double quotes around your search query.
Suppose you are searching for an answer to this question...
How long does it take for a car traveling at a speed of 50.0 miles per hour to travel 300 feet?
You can copy and paste the question into a search engine and you will get back thousands, possibly millions, of results.
To narrow your search, put double quotes around the question.
Sometimes the words of the question might stay the same, but the numerical values might change. For example the 50.0 miles per hour in the question above might be switched to 55.0 miles per hour, so you might try a search for only the text part in double quotes.
Free Help - you get what you pay for.
There are also many Q & A services on the internet that will do your homework for you. There are some free services that will help you with a few questions, but if you have a lot of questions, you will have a tough time finding someone to "help" you through them all for free.
How to copy homework questions from your book or website:
It is a real pain just typing your questions to send them, and if there are a lot of mathematical formulas and/or diagrams, this is next to impossible!
Instead what you should do is scan your questions, saving them as a pdf or jpg file (and perhaps insert the jpg files into MS Word). If you don't have a scanner, your school might have one in the computer center. Or you could try a copy shop like Kinko's or something (although Kinko's is overpriced and if you can find a small independent copy shop you'll likely get a better deal). Save your file as a pdf or jpg, but make sure the file isn't too large. 250 to 300 kb for a graphic should be fine. Emails don't usually handle file sizes of more than 4 or 5 megabytes.
If your homework is online you can either use "copy and paste" or a screen capture.
See details here for screen captures: Copying Questions for Homework Help. Screen capture is often the preferred method because if your website questions have a lot of graphics, "copy and paste" will not work because Bill Gates just hasn't figured that out yet. Also copying any tables from a website and pasting them into MS Word typically eats up computer memory like mad. So to keep an information in your question from being lost (like graphics getting dropped when you do a cut and paste) and to make sure MS Word doesn't get hung up on the tables, doing a screen capture is often your best bet!
Screen capture not working?
If this is the case it's likely that the online class website designers know how to block this command. However there are screen capture programs made that can override this. It's a lot of trouble, but there it is. You just have to know how to outsmart the computer.
Cheating at online classes:
If your class is one of those that are entirely online -- even the exams!-- from your own home, then cheating is a cinch! Some students give out their login names and passwords to tutors or homework help services and ask them to take the class for them. I don't recommend this!!! In fact I've known students to be ripped off by these homework help services and if the student tries to get their money back, the "tutor" threatens to tell the student's university! Also, if a website administrator sees that the login came from India or even from a state or province far from where you live, you can get caught! I've never heard of this happening, but it's possible. What I would recommend is that you login from your computer and send the questions to a tutor through email or instant messenger. This takes a little more time, but is a bit safer. If you do decide to pay someone to log in for you and complete your class, only pay a little bit as you go... DO NOT PAY THE ENTIRE SUM TO ANY TUTOR OR HOMEWORK HELP SERVICE!!... unless you just like getting ripped off.
